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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog

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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

World Religions Minor

The minor in World Religions offers an expansive orientation to the diversity of human religious phenomena and the place these have in a complex, global society and its intellectual traditions.

Minor Requirements

The minor requires a minimum of 18 credits as follows:

Required

ANT 335 - RELIGION IN EVERYDAY LIFE Credit(s): 3
Complete 15 credit hours from at least three different areas from the list provided. 9 of the 15 credit hours must be at the 300- level or above and 6 of the 15 credit hours must be from a prefix outside of their major. Students must take course work from at least two different prefixes. A course used to satisfy one area may not be used to satisfy another area in the minor.

Area 1: Judaism

HJS 110 - INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT/HEBREW BIBLE Credit(s): 3
HIS 323 - THE HOLOCAUST Credit(s): 3
HJS 324 - JEWISH THOUGHT AND CULTURE I: FROM ANCIENT ISRAEL TO THE MIDDLE AGES Credit(s): 3
HJS 325 - JEWISH THOUGHT AND CULTURE II: FROM THE EXPULSION FROM SPAIN TO THE PRESENT Credit(s): 3
HJS 326 - THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA Credit(s): 3
HJS 327 - WOMEN IN JUDAISM Credit(s): 3
CLA 390 - BACKGROUNDS TO AND EARLY HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY TO 150 CE Credit(s): 3
OR
HIS 390 - BACKGROUNDS TO AND EARLY HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY TO 150 CE Credit(s): 3
ENG 271 - THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE Credit(s): 3
HIS 191 - A HISTORY OF WORLD RELIGIONS: (SUBTITLE REQUIRED) Credit(s): 3
PHI 504 - ISLAMIC AND JEWISH PHILOSOPHY AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION Credit(s): 3

Area 2: Christianity

CLA 190 - INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW TESTAMENT Credit(s): 3
CLA 191 - CHRISTIANITY, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY: A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION Credit(s): 3
CLA 391 - CHRISTIANS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE Credit(s): 3
OR
HIS 391 - CHRISTIANS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE Credit(s): 3
HIS 330 - A HISTORY OF WESTERN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT (I) Credit(s): 3
HIS 512 - CAROLINGIAN EMPIRE Credit(s): 3
HIS 513 - MEDIEVAL INSTITUTIONS SINCE THE MID TENTH CENTURY Credit(s): 3
HIS 546 - THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE Credit(s): 3
CLA 390 - BACKGROUNDS TO AND EARLY HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY TO 150 CE Credit(s): 3
OR
HIS 390 - BACKGROUNDS TO AND EARLY HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY TO 150 CE Credit(s): 3
ENG 271 - THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE Credit(s): 3
HIS 191 - A HISTORY OF WORLD RELIGIONS: (SUBTITLE REQUIRED) Credit(s): 3
PHI 504 - ISLAMIC AND JEWISH PHILOSOPHY AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION Credit(s): 3

Area 3: Islam

AIS 228 - ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION Credit(s): 3
AIS 330 - ISLAM IN THE MODERN WORLD Credit(s): 3
AIS 338 - WOMEN AND ISLAM Credit(s): 3
AIS 340 - FUNDAMENTALISM AND REFORM IN ISLAM Credit(s): 3
AIS 345 - ISLAMIC MYSTICISM Credit(s): 3
AIS 410 - THEOLOGY AND LAW IN ISLAM Credit(s): 3
AIS 430 - ISLAM IN AMERICA Credit(s): 3
AIS 440 - INTRODUCTION TO THE QURAN Credit(s): 3
HIS 191 - A HISTORY OF WORLD RELIGIONS: (SUBTITLE REQUIRED) Credit(s): 3
PHI 504 - ISLAMIC AND JEWISH PHILOSOPHY AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION Credit(s): 3

Area 4: Central and East Asian Religion

ANT 327 - CULTURE AND SOCIETIES OF INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA Credit(s): 3
CHI 345 - INTRODUCTION TO EARLY CHINESE THOUGHT Credit(s): 3
CHI 450 - DAOISM Credit(s): 3
PHI 343 - ASIAN PHILOSOPHY Credit(s): 3
HIS 191 - A HISTORY OF WORLD RELIGIONS: (SUBTITLE REQUIRED) Credit(s): 3
PHI 504 - ISLAMIC AND JEWISH PHILOSOPHY AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION Credit(s): 3

Area 5: Ancient, Folk, and Indigenous Religion

CLA 135 - GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY Credit(s): 3
CLA 382 - GREEK AND ROMAN RELIGION Credit(s): 3
GER 363 - GERMANIC MYTHOLOGY Credit(s): 3
RUS 370 - FOLKLORE OF RUSSIA AND UKRAINE Credit(s): 3

Area 6: Methodology and Comparative Studies

ANT 130 - INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE RELIGION Credit(s): 3
ANT 450 - SYMBOLS AND CULTURE Credit(s): 3
PHI 245 - INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION Credit(s): 3
PHI 545 - PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION Credit(s): 3

Note:

For individual students and on a case-by-case basis, other courses which a student has taken may be counted toward the minor, upon request of the student and provided the content of the course is deemed sufficiently relevant by the adviser for the minor.